Here’s the currently planned route, including where we’ve stopped so far. We’re at my mom’s place in Sturgis, MI as of now, and we’re planning (perhaps unwisely) to get as far as Schenectady, NY tonight. Wish us luck!
My road trip is now well under-way. We’ve come 1158 miles, give or take a few, in two days of driving. The first night we stayed in Elko, NV, and last night in Laramie, WY. Exciting places, both of them. We’ve been making a feeble attempt to find good places to eat using Roadfood, but that has yet to actually work out. They need more spots along I80!
We’re about to ship out again for the day … the cats are in their carriers (much to their disliking, of course), and our stuff is packed up. Jenny is scolding me for using the computer instead of carrying stuff down to the car, just like every morning when we travel. We’re hoping to get to Des Moines, IA - about 9 hours of driving time, and then tomorrow in theory we should get to our parents houses in Stavanger and Sandwich, IL. I’m looking forward to being in Sandwich for a couple of days.
Time to go!
Stuff done:
Stuff remaining:
Three days left til I move. The moving truck comes friday. I finally heard back from the director of engineering in Cambridge, and he is pleased to have me transfer there, which is a huge relief. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to sort any of the bureaucracy out until after I had physically relocated, which would have made things awkward. I still need to convince the HR department that I’m moving, but in theory that shouldn’t be too difficult - just some paperwork, more or less.
Things remaining to do:
I still really don’t want to go, but I’m always super apprehensive about big changes like this. Knowing that I’ll actually have a place to sit and a computer to use when I get to the office in Cambridge makes me feel better, at least. Until today the only people on the east coast who really understood that I am coming there were a pair of managers in New York and one helpdesk employee in Boston.
You read that right. I’m moving to Boston at the end of this week. I’m absolutely terrified, of course. I’ve sold and generally gotten rid of a whole lot of stuff, which will definitely make moving easier. I think I’ll be rid of all the crappy “college” furniture after this move - that is to say, the crappy particle-board stuff that I never should have taken with me to California in the first place, such as the $25 Wal*Mart bookshelf whose structural integrity was dependent on the tallest books in the shelves. I still need to find new homes for all my plants though, as well as arranging for my car to be shipped. Oh, and I should really get my car to the mechanic before moving too, so they can fix the air conditioner, which they broke the last time I had it in their shop.
I really don’t want to move. I’m going to miss this place!
This is very similar to the situation in my apartment. There may be a disgusting mountain of cat vomit on the floor when I wake up in the morning. It very well may not be there anymore when I get home. It’s magic, and it has a name: Balin!
I finally got around to fixing the problem that caused some parts of this blog to load using https and others via http. You shouldn’t get any more silly browser warnings when loading it up anymore.
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